B&W (T) Patterson's Milloo, Victoria, Australia
By
WazzaAndWenches on 20-Aug-10. Waypoint GA2459
Cache Details
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| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Burke and Wills |
| Container: | Regular |
| Coordinates: | S36° 23.601' E144° 22.827' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 265059E 5969233N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 116 m |
| Local Government Area: | Campaspe |
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Description
Burke & Wills - Camp IX Patterson's.
Burke & Wills (Traditional) Patterson's
The Victorian Exploring Expedition (Better known as the Burke & Wills Expedition)
Based on the diaries of Ludwig Becker, official diarist and naturalist of the expedition.
Camp IX. (Patterson's.) Wednesday, 29/8/1860.
This stage took the explorers across to meet the Piccaninny Creek at Myles Patterson's Piccaninny Creek or Kamarooka homestead. This stream, which starts as the Bendigo Creek, eventually becomes the Mt. Hope Creek.
For Becker, the Terrick Terrick Plains commenced after leaving the timbered country near the Campaspe, and he was impressed by the plains as the expedition moved westward in the afternoon sunshine. In the shimmering heat, the mirages produced uncanny effects, and the miles of lush grass appeared to him like ‘a calm ocean with green water’.
Visitors from Bendigo again invaded the travellers’ camp at Patterson's, delaying their departure next morning for Dr. Hope's Terrick Terrick No. 2 station when horses took fright at the camels, overturned a wagon and injured two of the sightseers. From Patterson's they followed the creek downstream (from bend to bend) until they eventually moved out of its valley at Mt. Hope.
Much of Patterson's homestead complex survives as Kamarooka Homestead, now the home of Mr. T. Mudie, the large woolshed, the former jackaroos' quarters and an example of wattle-and-daub construction being of special interest.
As Kamarooka Station is private property, the cache has been placed close to the site of Camp IX, but still outside the property boundary. There is no need to climb any fences or gates.
You are searching for a small ammo can hidden not too far from the road. As always, be careful of traffic passing at high speed and keep a close eye on children.
Hints
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Logs
This was first and was a nice quick one at 14:15 to open its account for 2019! 
TNLNSL. Thanks WazzaAndWenches.
We are currently touring Victoria with our geovan in tow, using geocaching as a guide. We have visited many amazing locations through geocaching and today our journey followed in the footsteps of Burke and Wills - bringing us to your cache B&W (T) Patterson's.
Many thanks WazzaAndWenches for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience today.
Cache and contents were in good condition.
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We were one of the lucky teams to receive a pathtag from Geocaching Australia for publishing a "Geocacher Cache" - thanks Geocaching Australia. We are on our way to the Alexandra Event which is happening on the eighteenth to the nineteenth of November 2017 hope to see you there.
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Never one to take the direct route home, I travelled west after today's 3 Month event to continue visiting Burke and Wills sites.
This was the second of today's targets. Thanks, WazzaAndWenches... all in good condition.
GCA#202
Next stop on our run south and we managed a quick-ish find here. Once again, the thought of what it must have been like when the B&W party through the area was had. Would have been a hard slog. Log was signed, cache replaced and then back into the car to continue our own trek.
Thanks WazzaAndWenches....great to cross another of the list.
I love the descriptions in the cache listings and this container was a lovely big one. I left a pathtag for the next finder
Thanks WazzaAndWenches
Day 3 and the rain continues - only the caching made for a bright spot today. A nice quick drive by grab.
Thanks for the cache WazzaAndWenches
Passed a lot of Camels just down the road at a place called 'Cowboy World'. Might have to visit there one day, maybe I might not.
Thanks for a wonderful B&W series. A great road to travel on for a weekend camping near Mitiamo.
Found by Roma and Max.
It was a pleasure to find one of our favourite and decent sized geo containers full of quality swaps and placed in an interesting location.
However no one could have anticipated the quantity of flood water that now surrounds this area although it was still possible to get to GZ with a hop skip and jump!
Thanks Warren for the effort you have gone to in making this a top cache.
Cheers,
from Romax.
